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As to lying, generally, he is not conspicuously worse than the mere lover, male or female; for lovers have been liars from the beginning of time. They deceive when it is necessary and when it is not. Schopenhauer says that it is because of a sense of guilt they contemplate the commission of a crime and, like other criminals, cover their tracks.
Indeed, it is in this sense that the sceptic uses them for our warning. 'Seit Kopernikus, says Schopenhauer, 'kommen die Theologen mit dem lieben Gott in Verlegenheit. 'No one, he adds, 'has so damaged Theism as Copernicus. As if limitation and imperfection in the celestial mechanism would make for the belief in God; or, as if immortality were incompatible with dependence.
In that one unassisted noun, scorning the aid of verb, adjective, or adverb, the gooseherd, by a masterpiece of profound and subtle emphasis, contrived to express the fact that he existed in a world of dead illusions, that he had become a convert to Schopenhauer, and that Mr. Curtenty's inapposite geniality was a final grievance to him. 'There ain't no business! he added. 'Ah! returned Mr.
By omitting something that might have thrown a light over the whole sentence, they turn it into a conundrum, which the reader tries to solve by going over it again and again. In the original, Schopenhauer here enters upon a lengthy examination of certain common errors in the writing and speaking of German.
She went with me as far as Frankfort, where I parted from her to go, for the time being, to Weimar the town where Schopenhauer had died a short time before. AND so I again crossed Thuringia, passing the Wartburg which, whether I visited it or merely saw it in the distance, seemed so strangely bound up with my departures from Germany or my return thither.
The world will not soon forget the pessimist who had such undying optimism such unquenchable faith that he knew the world would make a path to his tomb. Schopenhauer was the only prominent writer that ever lived who persistently affirmed that life is an evil existence a curse.
Heinrich Schopenhauer was so much influenced by English ideas that he desired that his first child should be born in England; and thither, some two years after their marriage, the pair, after making a d�tour on the Continent, arrived. But after spending some weeks in London Mrs.
As a proof of this, let any one try to translate Strauss's style into Latin: in the case of Kant, be it remembered, this is possible, while with Schopenhauer it even becomes an agreeable exercise. The reason why this test fails with Strauss's German is not owing to the fact that it is more Teutonic than theirs, but because his is distorted and illogical, whereas theirs is lofty and simple.
He commended, & dispraised himself, during dinner by attributing characteristics like his own to his country: 'We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks. When dinner was over he read me from the proofs of 'The Decay of Lying' and when he came to the sentence: 'Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterises modern thought, but Hamlet invented it.
A man who has sat at the feet of the philosophers from Ovid to Schopenhauer, and has gorged his intellect with the abstract principles of love, naturally adapts himself to the professorial capacity, and I soon saw that Phyllis, while one of the most lovable, one of the sweetest of girls, was almost wholly ignorant of the psychology of passion.
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